Jean Ursin de LaVillebeuvre

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• Residence: 1860, Jefferson, Louisiana, USA; Age: 83

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Infantry captain in the colonial service of Spain in Louisiana. he was the son of Jean Louis Fidel Farrault de la Villebeuvre, Chevalier de Garrois and Jeanne d'Arby. In 1815 participated in the Battle of New Orleans as an American officer.
[Source: Stanley Clisby Arthur, George Campbell Huchet de Kernion, Old Families of Louisiana (, 1931), pages 275,288.]

Jean married Eulalie Trepagnier in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Eulalie (daughter of Pierre Trepagnier and Elizabeth Isabelle Renaud) was born about 1782; died on 19 Dec 1848 in Orleans, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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3. Jean Ursin de LaVillebeuvre was born about 1803 in Louisiana, USA; died on 9 Apr 1881 in Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

Notes:

La Villebeuvre, Don Juan de, was a Spanish military officer who came to Louisiana about the time that Spanish authority was established in the province. He is mentioned in the petition of Dec., 1768, to the superior council praying for the expulsion of the Spanish frigate “used to serve as a prison to the citizens oppressed by Ulloa.” About that time M. Piernas, commandant at Natchez, asked a boat ascending the river for provisions, but was informed that they had none to spare. Piernas withdrew, but soon reappeared with a loaded piece of artillery and threatened to fire on the boat if she attempted to leave the landing. He then ordered Capt. La Villebeuvre, at the head of his troops, to take possession of the provisions. The petition states that the captain was reluctant to do so, but was obliged to obey the orders of his superior officer. In the winter of 1787-88 Capt. La Villebeuvre made a journey into the Indian country. He met the Choctaw tribe, which promised not to receive the Americans, but to remain under the protection of the king of Spain. He also met the chiefs of the Yazoos and made amicable arrangements with them, and persuaded the king of the Chickasaws and several of the head men of that tribe to go to New Orleans to meet Gov. Miro. He returned to New Orleans in Jan., 1788, and Gov. Miro reported that Capt. La Villebeuvre had rendered “meritorious services in his journey of 128 leagues in un the uninhabited regions”. The governor also recommended that he be promoted to lieutenant-colonel.
[Source: Alcée Fortier, Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form: Volume 2 (: Century Historical Association, 1914), 52-53. www.archive.org, http://www.archive.org/details/louisianacompris03fort.]

Name:
Also known as Captain Don Juan de La Villebeuvre.

Birth:
Parish of Toussaint, Bishopric of Vannes, Brittany

Jean married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]